Posted on 09/06/2004 5:42:04 PM PDT by Ramonan
Edited on 09/06/2004 6:29:32 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
This letter is NOT to the editor. This letter is to the young female soldier from Benton, who I had the privilege to meet this past Friday evening as we were both trying to get home to Arkansas. Returning from a business trip to New Jersey, I was changing planes in Cincinnati when we met. I had just boarded Delta Flight 6281 (operated by Chautauqua Airlines, a Delta Connection Carrier), Delta's last flight of the evening to Little Rock, when you came onboard and sat down in front of me. I, along with other passengers who had already boarded, listened while you shared your story with us This letter is also to the well-dressed, middle-aged woman who boarded the plane late, who through some administrative error had been assigned the same seat as the soldier. Your behavior made it obvious to me and those around me that you had no intention of handling the situation in a mature way. You approached the flight attendant and demanded "your seat."
Excepted, for full article, Click Here
Delta is approaching a well-deserved insolvency soon.
Well, why didn't he give the soldier *his* seat and get off the plane himself?
Delta used to be the best 20 years ago. Sad how they've fallen. My company uses Continental if possible. They're not bad.
He tried... read the full article at the link.
Delta wouldn't let him (and many other passengers who tried to give up their seat.
Sure, blame the bystander.
REad the whole article before you condemn the other passengers - they DID try to give up their seat, but Delta wouldn't let them.
I was about to say "I agree" but click the link and read the whole story:
This letter is also to Delta Airlines. When I, along with several others onboard, approached the Chautauqua flight attendant volunteering to give up one of our seats for the soldier, she left to ask the pilot if that could be arranged, then returned to inform me that the pilot was discussing it with "ops." I overheard part of her ensuing conversation with the pilot, where he conveyed the message that Delta would not permit a paying passenger to be replaced with a "non-rev"
And the worst aspect of this entire episode, the "witch" would not even recognize herself if this was pointed out to her. She was a "victim" and she had a "right", doncha know.
Others tried, Delta refused to allow it........
Yo people who reply off the cuff without reading the whole article are really starting to drive me buggy!!
I agree, they need to learn to read the entire article prior to posting.
Oh man, my bad. I'm a bonehead.
Egg on face. should have read the link. my bad.
I can state, however, from personal experience, that you CAN, on Delta airlines, relinquish your seat for military personnel. I have done so at LaGuardia.
What may have happened here is that there were OTHER people on the standby list not on that last-flight-out who had higher priority on standby than the soldier. Keeping the soldier on (instead of folks with higher priority) might have made two problems instead of one.
Botton line is that the boarding agent screwed up and embarrassed everuone involved.
Truthfully, a soldier on standby only has higher priority than a airline family member flying on a comp/non-rev ticket. If you really want to get home on leave, buy a ticket.
partially the poster's fault... it should have had an "excerpted" link
This reeks of urban myth.
And I need to learn how to proofread my own posts. :-)
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